The Brooklyn Nets Are Making Odd Moves at Odd Times | Locked On Sports Today

The Brooklyn Nets Are Making Odd Moves at Odd Times | Locked On Sports Today

The Brooklyn Nets came into the season with a interesting collection of pieces but no real aspirations of competing in the Eastern Conference so of course they did what everyone expected and traded off pieces at the trade deadline no they didn’t do that for reasons that remain unclear and for reasons that also

Remained unclear they waited until the All-Star break to relieve jacqu vaugh of Duties a after the game apparently like very very strange timeline in Brooklyn right now Adam arre is here from lock on Nets to try and help us make sense of all of this Adam can you explain to me anything that

The Nets have have decided to do attempted to do this season it’s all seems very bizarre to me yeah Peter they say shooting from the hip isn’t always the best NBA policy but I think Brooklyn’s bold in that sense and uh most GMS don’t survive their third or

Fourth and what could be a fifth coach potentially but but that’s the way the Nets like to do things um when it comes to Jack vaugh we thought that him being fired in season seemed very unlikely because of what you mentioned there there’s not a ton of expect for this

Team a lot of turnovers after the superstars left last trade deadline so why potentially put an in-house or outside candidate in a really difficult spot over the remainder of this season and then once the deadline passes and the All-Star Game passes you just think that they’re gonna kind of stand Pat so

No there’s not necessarily a logic to this pattern short of saying that it seemed like Jack vaugh had kind of run out as a voice in the lock roomman with these players and even guys that are are fairly company line like M Bridges had started to become more vocal in feeling like

Things needed to change something had to be different and we know you don’t fire players you fire coaches okay that that makes sense I guess to a point but if you you liked the roster you knew a couple weeks ago what was going on with with the performance 21 and 33 at this

Point here with you know 30 games left or just under so what is going to be the explanation for why this happens when okay we we like our guys we know we’re not performing well but we’re we’re not going to sell off like I’m I’m still I’m

Still trying to figure out how you reconcile what they did at the deadline with this or are you basically just telling me don’t try to ascribe logic where there is none I wouldn’t mind putting a little bit of that onto this you know don’t don’t look for answers

Where maybe logic is not going to Prevail but what I would say too is last year you think about the incoming plays Mel Bridges Cameron Johnson you also obviously get d FY Smith Royce O’Neal was there prior but then he gets moved at this deadline Spencer dwy comes in he

Gets moved to this deadline but last season and even in the offseason Cameron Johnson was con consistently saying well you know you come in it’s different players different schemes different systems we’re all trying to learn new language new verbage but once we get that together we’re really going to see

Things be get cohesive and see that turning of the corner now there’s two things that end up happening whether or not you should rely on Ben Simmons to be healthy and a focal point of your team that that maybe could be mistake one but it seemed like Jack vaugh was heavily

Dependent on a healthy Ben Simmons so when he goes out I think you start to see the erosion of well what was the system how have you worked and gotten better at this and there was a lot of language used by Jack Von in post games

Going back to the offseason the start of this season saying I think we’re learning a lot of good lessons the players are starting to understand things we’re going to get over that hump 21 and 33 at a certain point whatever you’re trying to apply one of two things has happened

It’s not Landing with the players correctly or you are not correctly using these players to the best of their abilities and I think now what the organization will sell is you’re going to see under Kevin Oly now named the interim head coach you’re going to see

The maximized value of a lot of players that no are not Superstars but are certainly an elevated player that we think are above role but not quite aite and it doesn’t look like they were ever maximized under vaugh this season yeah tell me what you think Kevin Oly brings

That Jack vau maybe didn’t it seems to be listen he’s regarded and this is sometimes cliche terms a very much player type coach he obviously came from Yukon he had success after being named by Calhoun as his successor leads him to a championship now he doesn’t leave under great terms there necessarily but

Does move on to the uh g-league with the Nets organization he has familiarity from a developmental level and that seems to be one of his tenants bringing players along so you have some young guys like a Jaylen Wilson he was old at the time of the draft he’s 2 three now

You expect to see him get worked in here but specifically even on the offensive end I would assume that he is going to run come in and instill actions and systems on the offensive end that generate opportunities and situational basketball for Mel Bridges for Cameron Johnson and then even specifically when

It comes to Ben Simmons who is healthy and playing now and the Nicholas Claxton you have to find ways to develop value for them when they are not on the basketball because Ben Simmons can can ignite that transition excuse me but when he once he passes that ball off if

We’re in halfcourt sets where does he function Nicholas Clon is great going towards the rim but if he’s going to be holding the ball at the top of the key how do you make sure you get Guys open I expect to see maybe some more horn actions maybe some floppy sets as well

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This week, the Brooklyn Nets decided to use their All-Star break to fire coach Jacque Vaughn in favor of assistant Kevin Ollie. The timing of the decision and others made in Brooklyn have people wondering what the plan is going forward for the Nets, so Locked On Nets host Adam Ambrecht joined Peter Bukowski to give you all the info you need on the situation. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network. #nets #nba

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